Drinks vs Alcoholic - What's the difference?
drinks | alcoholic |
(cricket, plurale tantum) A short break in play to allow the players to have a drink, and for quick repairs to be made to equipment or the pitch.
(drink)
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A person addicted to alcohol.
* - Alcoholic
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= One who abuses alcohol.
Of or pertaining to alcohol.
Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism
As nouns the difference between drinks and alcoholic
is that drinks is while alcoholic is alcoholic.As an adjective alcoholic is
alcoholic.drinks
English
Noun
(head)Verb
(head)alcoholic
English
Noun
(en noun)- Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes
- Daddy was an alcoholic
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
Synonyms
* dipsomaniac, drunkardAntonyms
* teetotaler, on the wagonSee also
*Adjective
(en adjective)- He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
- The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic .